Aloha King Tut Friday!
King Tut Day celebrates the day that King Tut's tomb was
discovered in Egypt's Valley of the Kings
by British archaeologist Howard Carter, on November 4, 1922.
King Tut, whose full name was Tutankhamun, was the 12th
pharaoh of the 18th Egyptian dynasty, and reigned from roughly
1332 to 1323 BCE, assuming power at the age of nine. His
original name was Tutankhaten, which means "the living image
of Aten," but he changed it to Tutankhamun after assuming the
throne, which means "the living image of Amun." In Egyptian
mythology "Aten" was the sun disk god.
Has
this iconic Northwest tree reached a tipping point?
Diebacks have felled countless trees throughout the region
but, according to emerging research, perhaps never so
prominently among Western red cedars or in such noticeable
concentrations west of the Cascades.
B.C.
permanently bans use of rat poison
The province of B.C. has decided to make a temporary ban on
the use of rat poison permanent.
Indigenous
people of the ‘Salmon Seas’ sign proclamation at Woodland
Park Zoo
Dozens of Indigenous knowledge keepers, leaders and fishers
from around the Salish Sea, Southeast Alaska and the Sea of
Okhotsk gathered at the zoo over the weekend. They shared
ancestral knowledge, ceremony and strategies to protect salmon
and the people who have cared for them since time immemorial.
State
announces its official recommendation for future of Capitol
Lake
The state’s Department of Enterprise Services will recommend
allowing Capitol Lake to revert to an estuary, its final
Environmental Impact Statement for Capitol Lake says.
Emails
Reveal a Key Forestry Regulation Is ‘Out of Whack’
B.C.’s cornerstone forest regulation, the annual allowable
cut, sets out how many trees can be cut down each year with
the intent of sustaining the industry for years to come. But a
legal loophole can allow companies to log beyond the limit for
years with no repercussions.
Seals
and sea lions vex Washington tribes as Marine Mammal
Protection Act turns 50
50 years ago, President Nixon signed the Marine Mammal
Protection Act into law. The act has been hugely successful in
restoring the abundance of the marine species it protects. But
some say it’s too successful.
B.C.
says old-growth logging has reached record lows as critics
call for greater transparency
The B.C. government says old-growth logging has reached record
lows, but one conservationist is decrying a lack of
transparency from the province.
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